The U. S. Mint reported a strange thing the other day:
It costs 1.7 cents to make a penny.
It costs 8.1 cents to make a nickel.
The government—that is, us—spends almost $1.65 to produce a
dollar’s worth of pennies or nickels.
Are you thinking what I’m thinking?
At least, let’s make this call: what do we need pennies for?
In many retail establishments, you can toss your pennies into the “leave a
penny, take a penny” tray—you can literally give away the pennies you get in
change, so you won’t have to carry them in your pocket or purse.
Let’s retire the penny.
Sorry, Abe.
Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2014
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